Universidade dos Acores

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• Environment

  
  Data Collection on Marine Litter Ingestion in Sea Turtles and Thresholds for Good Environmental Status Marco Matiddi¹, Giuseppe A. deLucia², Cecilia Silvestri¹, Gaëlle Darmon³, Jesús Tomás⁴, Christopher K. Pham⁵, Andrea Camedda², Frederic Vandeperre^5,6, Françoise Claro⁷, Yakup Kaska⁸, Helen Kaberi⁹, Ohiana Revuelta⁴, Raffaella Piermarini¹, Roberto Daffina¹, Marco Pisapia¹, Daniela Genta¹, Doğan Sözbilen⁸, Mohamed N. Bradai¹⁰, Yasmina Rodríguez⁵, Delphine Gambaiani³, Catherine Tsangaris⁹, Olfa Chaieb¹⁰, Judicaëlle Moussier⁷, Ana L. Loza¹¹, Claude Miaud³, INDICIT consortium, ¹Italian National Institute for Environmental Protection and Research (ISPRA), ²Institute for Coastal Marine Environment-National Research Council (IAMC-CNR), ³EPHE, PSL Research University, UMR 5175 CE3FE, CNRS, UM, Univ P. Valery, SupAgro, IRD, INRA, Biogéographie et Écologie des Vertébrés, ⁴Cavanilles Institute of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology, University of Valencia, ⁵Departamento de Oceanografia e Pescas, Instituto do Mar/Okeanos, Universidade dos Açores, ⁶MARE - Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre, Universidade dos Açores, ⁷ The protocol focuses on the collection of sea turtle samples, describing all the steps from the animal recovery and necropsy to the classification and quantification of ingested marine litter. Moreover, the representative results show how to use the collected data to elaborate the possible thresholds for Good Environmental Status.